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Putting the Phone Away

May 21, 2018 by rurugby Leave a Comment

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I’m really looking forward to getting off the grid at Rites of Spring in the Berkshires on Wednesday. It’s great to live in an information age where we can Google nearly anything on our phones but it’s super addictive.

One thing I’ve enjoyed this year is playing Final Fantasy XV on my phone. It’s a lot of fun but a time suck. And it’s set up to award you for checking in frequently. These devices we have like being checked. We get dopamine when we find people like our stuff on Facebook, or we win prizes on games like Final Fantasy XV.

And we can drive ourselves nuts with all the continual crises on the news. Especially in Trump World.

I find if I want to read, watch a movie or even watch the Golden State Warriors, the phone is best in another room. It is just so distracting.

It’s good for the system to be in a place every year where I literally can’t check in. It’s healing. It’s also great to be where I don’t hear the noise if of cars all the time. And I can hear the water, the wind, the frogs, the birds and kids at play. And be in my pagan community again for Rites of Spring.

It’s a loud world. And sometimes it’s best in life to turn it off.

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Packing For the Mountain

May 18, 2018 by rurugby Leave a Comment

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We need to get ready for going to the Berkshires for Rites of Spring on Tuesday. So much more still to do. Really looking forward to seeing people again, being in an intentional and spiritual place and being totally off the grid. It’s a wicked good thing.

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Barry ****

May 17, 2018 by rurugby Leave a Comment

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Really well written and acted. Bill Hader is an excellent actor and Stephen Root and Henry Winkler are having a lot of fun.

Although, I’m not sure actor is the best career move after hitman. Slightly different public profiles.

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Tornado Warning

May 15, 2018 by rurugby Leave a Comment

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I had a tornado warning here from around 5pm-5:30pm.

Glad I was home, storm came suddenly and fast.

Was putting my pills together for the week when the sheets of rain and hail came. And then the power went out.

I offered our basement to our upstairs neighbor and went downstairs to the play Splendor and listen to music.

And it’s nice that I have my cell phone handy which can be a flashlight and entertainment device.

And to talk to people even if there is a delay with temporary cell coverage issues.

Be safe this storm was enormous, was a line of thunderstorms from Hartford, CT to Gettysburg, PA when the tornado warning came.

Sometimes it’s good to be in the future.

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The Fear

May 11, 2018 by rurugby Leave a Comment

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I’m reading Marya Hornbacher’s excellent “Madness: A Bipolar Life” again. And it makes me think about one of my fears. Which is to be manic, out of control and back in the hospital. Followed by months of depression and recovery. I have a feeling this isn’t a unique feeling when you are afflicted with a mental illness.

It’s been three years now since the last time I was hospitalized and five years since I had an even bigger manic episode when my dad died. Before that my last major manic episode was in the late summer of 2001. But, I have the fear. It keeps me medicated but I definitely worry about the future. Mania may give you a lot of energy but when it crests it’s no fun.

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